Best Newsletter option

I want a newsletter for the following thing
I want people of specific cities to signing in where they can write their name and email(obviously) and also an option wherein they can select the city so i can send different newsletters to the different cateogary of people
Guys which will be the simplest newsletter option in this case...i dont really want a stable one

 

Do you have a CMS already? If so then I'd look for a plugin that allows newsletter creation

Otherwise, check out PHPlist, or ConstantContact

 

I do but then i was this one specifically for a only newsletter thing
so phplist and constact contact right? Can you club down just ONE for me...too many options confuse me

 

Sure: PHPlist is free, but clunky

ConstantContact is paid, but cheap and reliable

you have to pick what works for you!

 

ahhh i was looking for something open source...so what are the options in open source?

 

PHPlist is open source

 

i know dude..any other open source option other thatn phplist because in the first look i didnt really like phplist

 

There is one other option that you can try..
Joomla + Acajoom (Newsletter extension, free).

 

ahh not that man..i want only Newsletter

 

is that better than YaNC?

 

Yes, it is.
I've been using it for about 3 months without issue.
Have tried YaNC in the past and Acajoom just seems a better option.

 

And how does it compare to PHPlist? Have you had any deliverability issues?

 

Haven't used PHPList so I can't really compare the two.
As for deliverability, no issues so far. Well, I did face a problem once but it was related to the host dropping the outgoing emails after a limit was reached. Acajoom was unable to handle that problem properly and was giving a non-intuitive error.

 

What tracking/reporting options does it provide? Are there any visual reports, like graphs?

 

No graphic reports, have not checked with their paid package though.
There are simple stats available however.